Supernatural: Series 1

Synopsis
A follow-up to the SUPERSENSE series. Combining state-of-the-art filming techniques including time-lapse phorography with the latest research into animal senses, SUPERNATURAL unravels the extrasensory feats and near paranormal powers of animals. Episodes such as ‘Time Warp’ shows how time stretches depending on the animal’s perception while ‘The Paranormal’ reveals lizards that can walk on water and fish that practice telepathy.
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Year of release
2006
Year of production
1998
Notes
Broadcast in 6 weekly parts on BBC1 beginning 30/3/1999
Subjects
Biology; Psychology
Keywords
animal behaviour; animal communication; sensory perception; time-lapse photography

Credits

Director
John Downer

Distribution Formats

Type
DVD
Format
Region 2 PAL
Price
£19.99
Availability
Sale
Duration/Size
203 minutes
Year
2006

Sections

Title
Extrasensory Perception
Synopsis
This first programme looks at animals and plants that possess senses more powerful than humans’. Includes how sharks perceive electromagnetic radiation given off by humans, and how dolphins use ultrasound to scan their world. Shows cotton plants summoning wasps to defend them from caterpillars and hippo sounds that can be hear 20 miles away.
Duration
30 mins

Title
Outer Limits
Synopsis
This programme looks at amazing feats of endurance, including geese that can withstand the high-altitude cold, the fairy shrimp egg that can survive boiling, and the thermal imaging of the polar bear and the human.
Duration
30 mins

Title
Hidden Forces
Synopsis
The relationship of animals and plants to the invisible world of electricity, magnetism and electromagnetic forces.
Duration
30 mins

Title
Timewarp
Synopsis
How certain animals are able to speed up or slow down their metabolism and their perception of time, featuring the sloth and the hummingbird.
Duration
30 mins

Title
Paranormal
Synopsis
Creatures performing bizarre and seeming miraculous acts: a lizard that ‘walks’ on water, monkeys that eat charcoal to cure stomach upsets, pyromaniac jackdaws and crows with a fascination for cigarettes, and pigeons, chickens and alligators that can be hypnotised.
Duration
30 mins

Title
Close Encounters
Synopsis
Human encounters with animal power - a man who strokes sharks, and one who claims to understand bee language, covering himself in a swarm and living through it; fish in a spa in Turkey that apparently cure psoriasis; healing properties from dolphins’ ultrasound emissions.
Duration
30 mins

Production Company

Name

BBC Television

Distributor

Name

BBC Shop

Email
bbcshop@bbc.co.uk
Web
http://www.bbcshop.com External site opens in new window
Phone
0844 848 9799
Fax
01795 414 555
Address
PO Box 308
Sittingbourne
ME9 8LW
Notes
The BBC Shop closed on March 29th 2016. It was replaced by the BBC Store (www.bbcstore.com) where many BBC programmes can be bought and downloaded in digital format only. The BBC continues to make many of its programmes available on DVD and Blu-Ray but these are now only available from other online retailers.
 

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